RichZ
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- Kubota 4630 with cab and loader
Anyone who has been following my thread on sciaticia knows of my medical troubles. (Sorry in advance for typos, I'm still pretty stoned on pain meds) My other trouble is that my household is just my wife and me. Our kids are long gone, and have no interest in our farm, having been born and raised on Long Island. We're quickly finding out, that even at our reduced state, our little 10 acre farm is too much for one person to handle. We bought the farm to become a commercial goat farm. I've posted before on how the economy killed our once successful operation,, and we're now down to about a dozen pet goats and about 15 pet sheep, a llama, an alpaca and 2 pet horses, plus a flock of free range chickens for eggs.
I plan on keeping my day job for another 5 years, and then retire. The plan was to retire to become full time goat farmers, and in fact, my wife left her job early to run the farm. But the economy killed that. So we're thinking of eventually selling our little farm and possibly moving to New Hampshire or Vermont. We want something one of us can maintain if neccessary. We'll have no more livestock other than our 4 dogs and 2 cats. We want at least an acre or 2 or land that will need little or no maintenance, possibly woods with some water, a creek or pond. This place is my life's dream, but it kills me to see my wife struggle while I recuperate. I've helped so many neighbors when they have had trouble, but no one is coming to my door to help. Does anyone have any ideas of nice towns to look at? I'd like any experiences good or bad, anything will be helpful. I don't want to go into this cold, and the TBN braintrust has been the best resource that I know of.
We want a small one floor house that will be easy to maintain. I'm 57 with a terrible back, and my wife is 58 also with a bad back. We don't want to move back to the suburbs where we came from, but we just can't keep this up.
So what do you think of the cost of living, property taxes, weather, and anything else you can think of. We live in Cambridge, NY, so the weather willl probably be the same. Neither of us enjoys the heat, so we don't want to move to the south. We've been thinking that we might save money living in New Hampshire or Vermont. We love both states, as they're very similar to where we live now. If the cost of living hadn't gotten so high in NY, we'd try to figure something out to stay here, but without our dairy goat income, we're having a rough time, and even maintaining this place while I'm recovering is tough.
Thanks for any help or advice.
I plan on keeping my day job for another 5 years, and then retire. The plan was to retire to become full time goat farmers, and in fact, my wife left her job early to run the farm. But the economy killed that. So we're thinking of eventually selling our little farm and possibly moving to New Hampshire or Vermont. We want something one of us can maintain if neccessary. We'll have no more livestock other than our 4 dogs and 2 cats. We want at least an acre or 2 or land that will need little or no maintenance, possibly woods with some water, a creek or pond. This place is my life's dream, but it kills me to see my wife struggle while I recuperate. I've helped so many neighbors when they have had trouble, but no one is coming to my door to help. Does anyone have any ideas of nice towns to look at? I'd like any experiences good or bad, anything will be helpful. I don't want to go into this cold, and the TBN braintrust has been the best resource that I know of.
We want a small one floor house that will be easy to maintain. I'm 57 with a terrible back, and my wife is 58 also with a bad back. We don't want to move back to the suburbs where we came from, but we just can't keep this up.
So what do you think of the cost of living, property taxes, weather, and anything else you can think of. We live in Cambridge, NY, so the weather willl probably be the same. Neither of us enjoys the heat, so we don't want to move to the south. We've been thinking that we might save money living in New Hampshire or Vermont. We love both states, as they're very similar to where we live now. If the cost of living hadn't gotten so high in NY, we'd try to figure something out to stay here, but without our dairy goat income, we're having a rough time, and even maintaining this place while I'm recovering is tough.
Thanks for any help or advice.